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Spring Equinox 2025: When is Vernal Equinox? What is it? All you need know

Let's welcome Spring with the Vernal Equinox. This week marks the vernal equinox -- the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere and astronomical fall in the Southern Hemisphere. The Vernal Equinox or Spring Equinox will be observed at 09:01 UTC on March 20, 2025. In March, Northern Hemisphere observers welcome the longer, warmer days heralded by their vernal, …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Sunita Williams & Barry Wilmore Bid Goodbye To ISS As Dragon Undocks From Space Station: WATCH

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NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore embarked on their return journey to Earth on Tuesday, departing from the International Space Station after an extended nine-month stay. pic.twitter.com/W3jcoEdjDG — NASA March 18, 2025 Along with Williams and Wilmore, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov also boarded the Dragon spacecraft and departed from the Harmony module to conclude …

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WATCH: Nasa, SpaceX launch Crew-10 to bring back Sunita Williams, Butch Willmore

Firstpost

SpaceX launched its Crew-10 mission to the ISS on Saturday morning, which is set to bring NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore back to Earth. SpaceX launched its Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on Saturday morning, which is set to bring NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth. Cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Video: Elon Musk's Starlink satellite crashes from space, sparks 62 fireballs

India Today

A Starlink satellite, part of SpaceX's mega broadband constellation, re-enters Earth's atmosphere and burned up sparking several fireballs seen in skies above the United States. "Starlink 5693 appears to have reentered over the southern Wisconsin/Michigan area at about 0303 to 0305 UTC Jan 29 and was widely observed from neighbouring regions including Chicago," Astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Isro yet to attempt undocking as SpaDeX satellites remain docked to each other

India Today

The Indian Space and Research Organisation is monitoring the two satellites docked together as part of the Space Docking Experiment. The Indian space agency performed the docking successfully on January 16 bringing both satellites chaser and target together for a precise manoeuvre while flying above Earth. ISRO successfully completed docking of two SPADEX satellites in the early hours of 16 …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Chasing stars: Isro's SpaDeX satellites seen in thrilling space chase

India Today

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully deployed the two SpaDeX satellites, which were captured during a low elevation pass The observations were recorded on December 31, 2024, between 05:27:10 and 05:27:20 UTC from a South American tracking site. WATCH SPADEX SATELLITES CHASE IN SPACE Low elevation pass of the @isro Space Docking Experiment SpaDeX A and SpaDeX B. The successful …

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Flash Bitcoin price dip triggers $303m selloff, before price rebounds to near record-high

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9 months ago

Sunita Williams and other US astronauts aboard ISS forced to take shelter as Russian satellite breaks up near station

Hindustan Times

A Russian-owned decommissioned satellite endangered several ISS astronauts after it fractured near the space station. In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. According to …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Lunar time scale: What time is it on the moon? Scientists say it’s urgent we figure it out

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Scientists aren’t just looking to create a new “time zone” on the moon, as some headlines have suggested, said Cheryl Gramling, the lunar position, navigation, and timing and standards lead at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Rather, the space agency and its partners are looking to create an entirely new …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Why is NASA allotting a standard time for the moon?

The Hindu

The story so far: In September 2025, NASA’s four-member Artemis crew is scheduled fly around the moon in preparation for the space agency’s mission to land on the moon again. Explaining the move, OSTP Deputy Director for National Security Steve Welby said, “A consistent definition of time among operators in space is critical to successful space situational awareness capabilities, navigation, …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Why does NASA want a time zone on the moon?

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NASA has been tasked with determining a standard time zone for the moon, but it’s more complicated than you might think. In a memo issued on April 2, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy stated: “Federal agencies will develop celestial time standardisation with an initial focus on the lunar surface and missions operating in Cislunar space, with sufficient …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Moon standard time: White House instructs NASA to create lunar time zones

Salon

On Tuesday the Biden administration called on NASA to set an internationally useful standard for measuring time on the moon and other celestial bodies — where clocks behave differently than they do on Earth. "The same clock that we have on Earth would move at a different rate on the moon," said Kevin Coggins, NASA's space communications and navigation chief, …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

NASA collects 'space debris' that crashed into Florida man's home

Hindustan Times

NASA said Tuesday it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a Florida man's home which could well be a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station. "So that's 1934 UTC, which is very consistent with the Space Force estimate of reentry over the Gulf at 1929 UTC," wrote noted astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, in response. …

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1 year ago

Why time will stop in 2029: Scientist says a 'negative leap second' will be needed to adjust for Earth's rotation speeding up

Daily Mail

We all know that an extra day is added in February once every four years – known as a leap year. To make up for irregularities in the Earth's spin, leap seconds are traditionally added - but for the first time, a second could be taken away, possibly in 2029 A leap second was last added on December 31, 2016. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipse in 2024: Two Surya Grahan and Chandra Grahan to take place in 2024. All details here

Hindustan Times

2024 is an exciting year for skywatchers as a breathtaking spectacle from the cosmos is in store. While a Solar Eclipse or a Surya Grahan occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting the Moon's shadow on Earth, a Lunar Eclipse or Chandra Grahan occurs when the Sun casts Earth's shadow onto the Moon. Solar and Lunar …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Russia: Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic testing of bodies in plane crash

India TV News

Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after a genetic analysis of bodies found in plane crash, according to Russian officials. The plane crash is largely speculated as Kremlin's revenge, as Prigozhin had previously engineered a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin in June. Several leaders, including US President Joe Biden and former British Prime Minister Boris …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Russia: Wagner's boss Prigozhin's plane descended dramatically in last 30 seconds I What went wrong?

India TV News

In a major development on Wednesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin-- the head of the Wagner mercenary army that fought in Ukraine and has been blamed for doing Russia's messy work in Syria and Africa and leading a brief mutiny against President Vladimir Putin-- was killed along with nine others in a dramatic flight crash. It claimed that the aircraft made a "sudden …

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1 year, 7 months ago

What was Putin doing during the plane crash that killed Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin? | Read here

India TV News

In a dramatic development on Wednesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group who previously engineered a short-lived mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin, was reportedly killed in a plane crash along with nine others in what is being speculated as Kremlin's revenge. Putin presented state awards to participants in the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, which …

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2 years ago

ISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of MT-1 satellite

The Hindu

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday, March 7, successfully carried out the controlled re-entry experiment for the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1. The space agency added that from the latest telemetry, it is confirmed that the satellite has re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and would have disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean, the final impact region estimated is in deep Pacific Ocean within the …

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2 years ago

Why space agencies want a set time zone for the Moon

ABC

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the Moon its own time zone. A single time zone would make it easier and safer for organisations to coordinate various missions operating on and around the Moon at the same time. European space officials said an internationally accepted time zone would make it …

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2 years, 2 months ago

When UTC became the standard of time

The Hindu

Time is now an integral part of our lives everyday. Atomic time vs solar time The idea behind Coordinated Universal Time or UTC was thus born in the 1960s. UTC is not only kept within an exact number of seconds of International Atomic Time, but is also kept within 0.9 second of solar time or astronomical time, denoted as UT1. …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Explained: What is leap second? Why are we scrapping it?

Hindustan Times

The world’s top metrology body has decided to end the practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation from 2035. So leap seconds are added to stop UTC going out of sync from solar time at a rate of about one minute every 90 years. But as the leap year is typically …

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2 years, 4 months ago

'Leap second' will be scrapped by 2035, as it could wreak havoc on GPS and telecoms

Daily Mail

This is because it disrupts systems the rely on regular timekeeping, like GPS However, scientists have ruled to scrap the leap second by the year 2035 This is to keep them in time with the Earth's rotation, which can change speed While we all know about February's extra day during a leap year, there is another time-keeping alteration we make …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | The 2009 Air France crash that killed 228 people

The Hindu

The story so far: After years of waiting, the trial in the 2009 Air France flight crash where 228 people on board were killed on their way to Paris, France from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil began on Monday. Overview On May 31, 2009, Air France flight 447 — an Airbus 330 — left the international airport in Brazil’s Rio de …

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Spring Equinox 2025: When is Vernal Equinox? What is it? All you need know

Sunita Williams & Barry Wilmore Bid Goodbye To ISS As Dragon Undocks From Space Station: WATCH

WATCH: Nasa, SpaceX launch Crew-10 to bring back Sunita Williams, Butch Willmore

Video: Elon Musk's Starlink satellite crashes from space, sparks 62 fireballs

Isro yet to attempt undocking as SpaDeX satellites remain docked to each other

Chasing stars: Isro's SpaDeX satellites seen in thrilling space chase

Flash Bitcoin price dip triggers $303m selloff, before price rebounds to near record-high

Sunita Williams and other US astronauts aboard ISS forced to take shelter as Russian satellite breaks up near station

Lunar time scale: What time is it on the moon? Scientists say it’s urgent we figure it out

Why is NASA allotting a standard time for the moon?

Why does NASA want a time zone on the moon?

Moon standard time: White House instructs NASA to create lunar time zones

NASA collects 'space debris' that crashed into Florida man's home

Why time will stop in 2029: Scientist says a 'negative leap second' will be needed to adjust for Earth's rotation speeding up

Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipse in 2024: Two Surya Grahan and Chandra Grahan to take place in 2024. All details here

Russia: Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic testing of bodies in plane crash

Russia: Wagner's boss Prigozhin's plane descended dramatically in last 30 seconds I What went wrong?

What was Putin doing during the plane crash that killed Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin? | Read here

ISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of MT-1 satellite

Why space agencies want a set time zone for the Moon

When UTC became the standard of time

Explained: What is leap second? Why are we scrapping it?

'Leap second' will be scrapped by 2035, as it could wreak havoc on GPS and telecoms

Explained | The 2009 Air France crash that killed 228 people